Everyone has heard their fair share of sex myths and it's difficult to know which ones to believe. And if you're unsure about whats true and whats false, you can read about what's a myth and what's a fact here.

Top ten female sex myths

G-Spot exists and women know how to stimulate it

Size really matters

Men like sex more than women

Women stop masturbating when in a relationship

Women have multiple orgasms

Women have never cheated on a partner

Good sex has to be spontaneous

Good sex has to end in an orgasm

Women orgasm most times they have sex

Sex isn’t the real deal without penetration

Top ten male sex myths

Men think about sex every seven seconds

Big hands or feet = big penis

Men play badly at sport if they have sex the previous night

Oysters make you horny

Women peak sexually later than men

Men have never cheated on a partner

Good sex has to be spontaneous

Good sex needs to last a long time

Men have a higher sex drive than their partner

You can burn a lot of calories having sex

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The most common sex myth for women is that they know where their G-Spot is and how to stimulate it. But it actually doesn’t exist for 78% of women. Only 22% have located theirs and say they use it to boost arousal, according to IllicitEncounters.com, the UK’s leading dating site for married people.

They surveyed 2,000 people, split evenly by gender. The second most common sex myth, according to women, is that size really matters and according to the survey 76% said it was not a big factor in achieving sexual satisfaction, with technique being more important than size.

Another female sex myth is that they desire sex less than their male partner. In fact, 54% of women said they had a higher sex drive than their partner.

It’s said that women stop masturbating when in a relationship. In fact, 82% carry on doing it, whatever they tell their partner.

Most women have experienced multiple orgasms. In fact, only 18% of women said they had had one.

More than a million people have registered with IllicitEncounters.com in the last decade. They also discovered the biggest male sex myth is that they think about sex every seven seconds. In fact, only 8% of men admitted to thinking about sex “all the time” and 64% of men said they thought about football more than sex.

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The second most common myth for men is that if they have big feet or big hands, they also have a big penis. There is no scientific justification for this and 76% of men said it was rubbish.

It was revealed that the third most common male sex myth was that they played worse at sport if they had had sex the previous evening.

Another weird one is that oysters make men aroused but only 12% of men said they had felt hornier after eating them. IllicitEncounters.com spokeswoman Jessica Leoni said: “Lots of myths grow up around sex that tend to stick...Who hasn’t eaten an oyster and mentioned that they are a well-known aphrodisiac, when there is no evidence to show they make you feel sexy?”

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And the last myth is that women peak sexually later than men. In fact, the highest levels of arousal for both sexes are in the late teens or early 20s.

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